Adam Carolla Quotes

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.

Comedy is such a personal thing. Everybody can cry at the same thing, but it's a lot harder to get everyone to laugh at the same thing.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There's entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

When I'm funny is when I'm angriest.

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger.

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

Sometimes laughing isn't the best judge of what's funny, 'cause I think there's a lot of things that are really funny that don't make you laugh, that don't make you physically, audibly make a noise, but is something that is much more powerful than that.

It's always fun to make people laugh, and then make them afraid or cry at the same time.

I think great comedy comes from the oppressed. It comes from feeling like you've gotten punched up in a way.

A lot of my comedy is to do with being angry, then finding a way to channel that.

Humor is the secret into the audience's other ranges of emotions.

Sometimes it's difficult to laugh at certain things but comedy can help.

"Nasty Man" isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.

People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, "I'm getting even

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

I just tell jokes, and I think a lot of people take it too seriously. It's not that I don't have things that I'm angry about in the world, and I think most decent human beings are upset about things, and even upset about things in their own country, but I'm not a particularly unhappy fellow.

Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.